Living in this country now how are we feelin as we’re accountin’ for those wounded & killed
And maimed bodies & souls and for firin’ it up with high-tech and top level collusion smokin’
Here more than anywhere else – look around hey this planet has turned into a hell made by us
Just name a few of these ballbuster movies & a few of these killer blues we’re cashin’ in on &
So what’s our God’s true name then actually is it power or greed or is it lies or just blunder
Or is it our sheer drunken vanity crashin’ down on us and trashing our nation’s best morale
Or are we merely trippin’ & lost n’all crippled here yes in this our Christian USA of today

We must adress all of us - our well civilized Americans sending off all these young soldiers
From this bold God’s own wilderness so trigger-greedy down on the run on our war machine
What kinda love game are we inflicting on the rest of our poor world then my young top guns
Where just did we learn this our trade so well hey U cowboys and marines on the rampage &
We know you didn’t want to have it called by its real name then U our God-ordained leaders
Well there’d be ‘couple’a names just to remind U of some places & our deeds there notorious
Could’a been in camp number what in Afghanistan or Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo too yes or
Could it be in Kabul now or Baghdad every night or … maybe even Teheran some day …
Could it be in … oh well we let U finally name the place then hey U you my dear US stooges
And how bloody holy we were gonna be right here oh yes & me & you 2 and so God-blessed
& us in New York & LA here even 2 meanwhile now or in our Washington long anyway say
Where we’re corruptin’ the media & science & religion & truth & the one living body & soul

& still hangin’ on to this game & sportin’ some tortures n’massacres & even on-line show 2
But then hasn’t there been this long noble tradition of ours lynch lawin’ clawin’ & kkk-clan’in
And what we’d do to the black & the red & hasn’t this even been fuelin’our dream factory’s
Hits’n here we’re doin’ it again to the bloody rest of them now & way out all over the world 2
& our young soldiers there & all those innocent victims’re dyin’& more so than any time b’4

But mind U there’s still some colour of life radiating & penetrating yes or isn’t it there 4 sure
So even U & me could be moved in this real colour-of-life-game then & stand up to it at last 2

& whoever we may be in the end here our dear Americans n’I must mean all of us oh yes if
We’re still some bold believers really & all the way through these our dark & vicious times 2
Times of lions or times o’ just hyenas man & we’re still hangin’ on & hangin’ on so sincerely
To the right Christian spirit & wasn’t that the one we’d thought to claim 4 us all or hadn’t we
Well this kind of spirit must’a truly have led us there 2 then on our holy crusade & especially
As we’d been firin’ on pregnant women & on children n’ other poor folk so they say in some
Ishaki
& there in
Haditha too

Well ? … … let’s just shrug it off … & go on some promotion tour to Europe …
N’here
Here we’re hangin’ on to life or to whatever we want to call this in our clean USA of today
Well U there yes U say what’s this our precious life here then really worth at all anyway

2006